A linked coming-of-age novel following boys living in Tokyo’s Tsukishima through their second year of junior high school. Friendship, sexual confusion, family trouble, illness, and parting are portrayed with both lightness and urgency against the atmosphere of a waterside neighborhood.

In Tsukishima, the boys learn friendship and pain at the same speed during their fourteenth year.

A linked novel that portrays postwar time and personal wounds through the viewpoints of family members. Memories of parents, siblings, and lovers overlap, forming a cross-generational story of a family that hurts even as it loves.

Like boats crossing among stars, the family’s memories drift apart while moving over the same darkness.